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Ruabon Mountain, Cairn II

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NPRN307047
Map ReferenceSJ24NW
Grid ReferenceSJ2346045440
Unitary (Local) AuthorityWrexham
Old CountyDenbighshire
CommunityPenycae
Type Of SiteCAIRN
PeriodUnknown
Description
One of a pair of cairns upon Ruabon Mountain (see also Nprn307046), 11m in diameter and 1.0m high.
(source Os495card; SJ24NW1)
J.Wiles 15.11.02

Circular cairn, 36 paces diameter, height 2.5ft. Most of the stones have been removed. On the S an SE sides the "cairn circle", in the form of a border of large and well-shaped stones, is exposed to view (Davies 1929, 391).
Based on CPAT SMR account. (D. Thomas, 23.09.2003)

OAN Site visit 2002/03.10/NW. The northern of two cairns situated on the southern end of a north-south ridge with the scarp falling away to the west. It survives as a substantial stone cairn that has much exposed central stones and the remnants of a surrounding kerb. This cairn is approximately 14m in diameter by up to 1m high.
N. Waring, OAN, 10.03.2003